"Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening."

“I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.”

“This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do larger movies or get jobs so they can familiarize themselves with a studio head and get the opportunity to deliver and impress - or maybe direct a smaller movie. It will take a considerable amount of time to rectify. It's very difficult because it starts at the top.”

“Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.”

“Consistency is something you can always improve on. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound. Instead of doing 5 good pitches an inning, try to make six. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be.”

“I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.”

Source : "Major, the chicken turned hawk". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 1999.

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”

“I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great”

Source : Matthew Reilly (2009). “Seven Ancient Wonders”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

“Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1924). “A Last Scrap Book”